[Wikipedia-l] I'm seeing a trend here or How to keep drivingaway good contributors

Thu Oct 24 22:18:43 UTC 2002

I think a police force is can be considered SoftSecurity, so if you
don't consider it so,  could you please explain what you mean by term?  

People enforcing social norms by quickly reverting the work of vandals
and antisocial jerks is SoftSecurity, if those people are organized and
empowered with social authority that makes no difference, except now it
may seem reasonable to some folks to call that group a "police force" --
which BTW is not Ed's term, but yours.

-----Original Message-----
From: The Cunctator [mailto:cunctator at kband.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 6:13 PM
To: wikipedia-l at nupedia.com
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] I'm seeing a trend here or How to keep
drivingaway good contributors

On 10/24/02 5:33 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com> wrote:

> Let's come up with a set of guidelines and figure out how to give 
> admins the power to enforce them -- in a way that does not curtail the

> ability of contributors to fulfill the mission of Wikipedia.

You're looking at this in not quite the right way. Rather than thinking
about creating a police force (which is what giving one percent of the
users power to enforce rules is) we need to be thinking about
SoftSecurity.

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